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•' In looking the whole over, I may say without further detail, that it 

 •would seem, judging from this orchard alone, as if, with given Jiardy 

 ^orts, nothing were gained in productivenes by stock grafting, and I 

 earnestly hope it will finally prove out so on account of some desirable 

 objects that can best be subserved by root grafting. Unquestionably, 

 however, this trial is as yet too limited in time and variety to aflford a 

 good criterion on this point. 



" In regard to another disputed point — grafting from nursery trees or 

 bearing trees — although I cannot be positive about the origin of most of 

 my bearing trees, having purchased them at nurseries, yet I have every 

 reascn to suppose, that most were worked from nursery trees. A part, 

 however, were raised by myself from bearing trees, and though there is 

 some difference in favor of this latter class, yet there is not so much as 

 between certain families or varieties — some being inclined to bear with 

 one much younger than others. Some of the tardy bearers having 

 already been mentioned, I will name some of them : Dumelow's Seedling, 

 Roseau, Famcuse, White Seek-no-further, Tolman Sweet, Pomme Gris, 

 Early Harvest, Winter Pearmain, English Golden Russet, Spice Sweet, 

 Autumn Strawberry, Dutchess of Oldenburg. 



F. K. PlICENIX." 



Second largest number of varieties of good apples ; John Bell, Gardner's 

 Prairie. Barry's Fruit Garden. 



Varieties Exhibited. 



Golden Russet. 

 Winter Russet. 

 Cheesebro' Russet. 

 Roxbury Russet. 

 Boston Russet. 

 Pomme Gris. 

 Steele's Red Winter. 

 Red Baldwin. 

 Spice Sweeting. 

 Green Sweeting. 

 Tolman Sweeting. 

 Yellow Bellefleur. 

 Cornish Gilliflower. 

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Black Gilliflower. 

 Rambo. 

 Romanite. 

 Fameuse. 

 R. I. Greening. 

 Sweet Greening. 

 Sweet and Sour. 

 Ortley Pippin. 

 Black Apple. 

 Surprise. 

 Newtown Pippin. 

 Munche's Crab. 

 Green Everlasting. 



Seek-no-further. 

 20 oz. Pippin. 

 Monstrous Pippin. 

 Swaar Winter. 

 Fall Wine. 

 Colvert. 

 Pomme Roi. 

 W^ellinifton. 

 Queen Anne. 

 Ponnel Spitzenburgh. 

 Red Siberian Crab. 

 Golden Beauty Crab 

 of Canada. 



